AOS Advanced Nurse Practitioner or Senior Nurse

The post holder will demonstrate a high level of expertise within the oncology specialist service providing advice, education and support to staff, patients, their families and carers. The post holder will be practising autonomously as an advanced clinical practitioner within Acute Oncology Service (AOS) to provide patient-centred clinical care. This will encompass the skills of advanced clinical assessment, history taking, examination, synthesising information gathered and using clinical reasoning to diagnose and formulate a shared management/personalised care/support plan within an agreed scope of practice throughout the directorate. The post holder will ensure that patients presenting with metastatic malignancy of unknown origin (MUO) have access to rapid expert oncology input to avoid unnecessary, inappropriate investigations; are discussed in an MUO MDT; and receive rapid treatment for their disease and/or symptom control decisions. The post holder will be expected to monitor the
impact of the Acute Oncology Service, using a number of key metrics including length of stay; and work with the Lead Acute Oncology Clinician to ensure the Acute Oncology Service meets the Quality Standards and South East London Cancer Alliance SELCA guidance/safety measures. This will be of a demonstrably high standard; and will influence patient care through expert clinical practice, management, leadership, education research, audit and professional activities.,

• Work autonomously as an advanced practitioner within acute oncology, managing a caseload of patients and delivering individualised direct patient care.


• Direct responsibility for assessment, examination, investigation and diagnosis of patients presenting with complications of cancer, treatment or new diagnoses of cancer


• Appropriately advise the admitting team about treating patients, resulting in the safe management


• Receive referrals via a variety of sources, including direct patient referrals.


• Participate in multidisciplinary clinics, participate in ward rounds, patient reviews and multidisciplinary team meetings


• Work within and across multi-professional teams and draw on the expertise of all members


• Undertake a variety of clinical skills and provide treatment/ advice as per the acute oncology guidelines and scope of practice.


• Within the scope of practice and clinical competence request diagnostic procedures and clinical investigations related to plans of care


• Utilise scope of practice to undertake a Non-Medical Prescribing role and provide advice on medicine management issues associated with the patient speciality group. Work within Trust policy for Medicines Management


• Utilise advanced knowledge and skills relating to the speciality to provide specialist advice to other members of the multidisciplinary team on the basis of patient assessment.
  
  King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of £1 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 15,000 staff based across South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local and specialist services across its five sites. The trust-wide strategy of Strong Roots, Global Reach is our Vision to be BOLD, Brilliant people, Outstanding care, Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the heart of everything we do. By being person-centred, digitally-enabled, and focused on sustainability, we aim to take Team King's to another level.


We are at a pivotal point in our history and we require individuals who are ready to join a highly professional team and make a real, lasting difference to our patients and our people.

King's is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan. In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus. Everyone's contribution is required in order to meet the goals set out in our Green Plan and we encourage all staff to work responsibly, minimising their contributions to the Trust's carbon emissions, waste and pollution wherever possible.